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Finally read Aquarium. It was good and the negative events in the book aren't as bad as I feared they would be. I've already read Lincoln in the Bardo so I think I'm caught up on "thread favorites".
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Cloks posted:Finally read Aquarium. It was good and the negative events in the book aren't as bad as I feared they would be. I've already read Lincoln in the Bardo so I think I'm caught up on "thread favorites". read Gravity's Rainbow
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Aug 7, 2018 03:25
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Bilirubin posted:read Gravity's Rainbow Read it in high school. I'll probably reread it around Christmas, when I have some time off.
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Aug 7, 2018 03:47
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more people should read iris murdoch's the unicorn imo
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Aug 7, 2018 03:54
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Cloks posted:Finally read Aquarium. It was good and the negative events in the book aren't as bad as I feared they would be. I've already read Lincoln in the Bardo so I think I'm caught up on "thread favorites". babyfucker, by urs allemann
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Aug 7, 2018 07:58
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I've just started reading Mason & Dixon since it's been sitting on my shelf for nearly four years.
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ulvir posted:babyfucker, by urs allemann 
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Heath posted:I've just started reading Mason & Dixon since it's been sitting on my shelf for nearly four years. Same. It's making me feel dumb.
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Aug 7, 2018 12:27
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Reading Krasznahorkai’s Satantango. drat, this book is really something. Estike’s death scene is probably the best dozen or so pages of prose I’ve ever read.
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ulvir posted:babyfucker, by urs allemann to a thread favorite more than one person has to have actually read it
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Aug 7, 2018 14:24
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I found the best approach to reviewing books on goodreads:Transgender Bathroom posted:If you'd like to know what I thought of this book, please contact me directly and I'd be happy to discuss it with you.
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Burning Rain posted:read Švejk
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Franchescanado posted:Same. Just read it, Mason & Dixon's a blast. I love that he still found a way to work Star Trek jokes in there, plus Stoner George Washington. I'd like to re-read it in light of reading The Age of Wonder to learn about Enlightenment science (as prep for a panel I did on the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein), but my next Pynchon read-through is going to be by publication date.
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After The War posted:Just read it, Mason & Dixon's a blast. I love that he still found a way to work Star Trek jokes in there, plus Stoner George Washington. I mean, that's what I'm doing. It's not my first Pynchon. I haven't read a lot of 18th century literature. The exaggerated spelling, grammar, and syntax is messing with my brain, like I'm dyslexic.
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Aug 7, 2018 17:51
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Mel Mudkiper posted:to a thread favorite more than one person has to have actually read it I think at least 2 other than myself have read it, so there
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Aug 7, 2018 18:01
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Aug 7, 2018 18:02
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Krankenstyle posted:also you never told me what you thought of my interpretation of babyfucker? Remind me. V. Illych L. posted:read literally everything by svetlana aleksijevich that's not how her name is spelled
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Aug 7, 2018 18:19
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i bought my brother a copy of zinky boys for his birthday a few years ago and he didn’t even read it, the monster
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Tree Goat posted:i bought my brother a copy of zinky boys for his birthday a few years ago and he didn’t even read it, the monster thats because he asked for a copy of kinky boys you dolt
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Mel Mudkiper posted:of babyfucker? Remind me. no but her name is spelled in russian and i would feel like a right poseur if i wrote Святлана Алексіевіч
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Mel Mudkiper posted:of babyfucker? Remind me. Krankenstyle posted:mel i read babyfucker last year and im interested in hearing what you think
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V. Illych L. posted:no but her name is spelled in russian and i would feel like a right poseur if i wrote Святлана Алексіевіч I know, its a joke. I once derailed a thread for like two pages by telling a guy he was spelling Dostoevsky wrong
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Aug 7, 2018 19:58
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ive got thread favorite Dictionary of the Khazars lined up after Ulysses other books im rotating thru right now: Acts of Rebellion - Ward Churchill (dope) Anti-Oedipus - Deleuze and Guattari (crap, i'd rather read Hegel than this dogshit) A People's History of Florida - A. Wasserman (good) History and Class Consciousness - Lukács (good) Old Style Conjure - Casas (decent so far) Lil Mama Im Sorry fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Aug 7, 2018 |
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Aug 7, 2018 21:08
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:A People's History of Florida - A. Wasserman (good) I've been looking for a book like this for years and haven't been able to find one. History books about Florida are mostly dogshit and it's hard to find a reliable source for good ones.
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Aug 7, 2018 21:21
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Franchescanado posted:I've been looking for a book like this for years and haven't been able to find one. History books about Florida are mostly dogshit and it's hard to find a reliable source for good ones. Also check out Emancipation Betrayed for more Florida history that isn't white washed
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Khazars is the best and i recently read pavics landscape painted with tea which i also thought was great and goes in a very cool direction with pavics attempt to break linearity
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:Also check out Emancipation Betrayed for more Florida history that isn't white washed This also looks great, thank you. CestMoi posted:Khazars is the best and i recently read pavics landscape painted with tea which i also thought was great and goes in a very cool direction with pavics attempt to break linearity This also looks great. Thanks for the heads up.
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Aug 7, 2018 22:16
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CestMoi posted:Khazars is the best and i recently read pavics landscape painted with tea which i also thought was great and goes in a very cool direction with pavics attempt to break linearity i've got a copy of unique item hanging around that i should read, apparently its like the endings to a whole lot of different books
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Omg give it to me
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Franchescanado posted:This also looks great, thank you. The solution is one of the most peculiarly satisfying things ive ever read. Its just such a perfect fit to the kind of book landscape is anf the kind of author pavic is
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Thanks to my good friends at progress publishers I'm reading a collection of stories by alexander grin, and they're pretty neat, sort of like proto magical realism with influence from adventure stories.
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So I'm running the reading challenge this year and I'm doing something a little different where in addition to thread wildcards (someone in the thread just tells you what book to read) there is a challenge for getting a wildcard from another thread, hopefully to encourage posters to wander around the forum a bit more. So anyway, since this is my favorite TBB thread, hoping someone can give me a book to read. Just gently caress my poo poo up.
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Guy A. Person posted:So I'm running the reading challenge this year and I'm doing something a little different where in addition to thread wildcards (someone in the thread just tells you what book to read) there is a challenge for getting a wildcard from another thread, hopefully to encourage posters to wander around the forum a bit more. Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. I just finished it and it blew me out of my shoes. e: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/09/satantango-laszlo-krasznahorkai-review
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Take the plunge! Okay! posted:Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai. I just finished it and it blew me out of my shoes. Excellent, will do. Thanks!
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I've only read The Melancholy of Resistance and The Last Wolf and both are amazing. I've got Seiobo There Below and The World Goes On on my nightstand.
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I'll throw my voice into the chorus and say that Dictionary of the Khazars is a very good book and also incredibly fun to reread since you can go all over the place with it in a different way each time.
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satantango is really frigging good
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Franchescanado posted:I mean, that's what I'm doing. It's not my first Pynchon. I haven't read a lot of 18th century literature. The exaggerated spelling, grammar, and syntax is messing with my brain, like I'm dyslexic. I found that it began to organically disappear from my notice around a third of the way through. The launch of the survey has such a great momentum that those chapters seem to fly by, and the whole novel starts to really click. edit: But I know what you mean about being made to feel dumb. For me, that was when I did my deep dive on GR with the help of Weisenburger. I realized this guy was playing a whole different sport. mdemone fucked around with this message at 22:46 on Aug 8, 2018 |
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